Healthcare costs: the solutions the system fears
Healthcare costs are soaring, premiums are strangling households and yet the public debate is going round in circles. Fees are adjusted, marginal savings are promised, and new «reforms» are brandished - without ever getting to the heart of the problem. This is neither an accident nor a demographic inevitability: it's a [...]
IKEA in Switzerland: disposable furniture as a weapon of economic and cultural destruction
We no longer colonise with tanks, but with flat-pack furniture. Behind the reassuring blue and yellow, IKEA has methodically transformed Switzerland into a captive market: interiors standardised, local brands sacrificed, quality sacrificed for volume, and profits exported out of the country. What presents itself as “democratic design” is in fact a [...]
Martin Pfister: Swiss defence left to budgetary tinkering and political denial
There are decisions that commit a country for a generation - and others that silently betray it. In the space of just a few weeks, a Federal Councillor who was previously unknown to the general public has achieved the feat of combining a massive tax increase, a deliberate circumvention of the debt brake and a strategic alignment without democratic debate, all without [...].
The CJEU no longer judges the law: it imposes it
When an unelected court imposes on a state what its constitution explicitly prohibits, it is no longer an interpretation of the law but a confiscation of political power. The CJEU's latest decision crosses a red line: under the guise of freedom of movement, it transforms European judges into ideological legislators, relegating the [...]
Harmonising to integrate: how Swiss federalism is being nibbled away, standard by standard
You don't kill Swiss federalism with words - you smother it with standards. Harmonisation“ here, ”bringing into line“ there, ”technical alignment“ elsewhere... and, without a clear vote, without a clear break, the cantons slip from sovereign to mere executors. The most worrying aspect is not centralisation per se: [...]
Asylum: the migration pump we refuse to close
We still hear talk of ’urgency«, »solidarity« and »temporary solutions«. But behind these words lies a brutal reality: asylum in Switzerland has become an uncontrolled, costly and politically cowardly tool of mass immigration. When a canton ends up paying a high price for accommodation, sometimes [...]
Falling gold and silver? The old money trick before the latest boom
Every time there's a jolt in the price of gold or silver, the same tune plays: «the party's over», «the bubble's bursting», «we have to sell». This reflex is not insignificant. It always arises when the monetary system is showing its most visible cracks. Because behind a one-off fall in [...]
EU or USA: the trap of a false choice that weakens Switzerland
We are trapped in a false dilemma: choose Brussels or Washington, the EU or the United States, as if there were only two possible futures for Switzerland. This binary debate is a dead end. While public opinion is divided over ideological loyalties, the main issue is being played out elsewhere: in the discreet legal mechanisms that are stripping away our sovereignty [...].
Cash: what AGEFI doesn't want you to understand before 8 March
We are being told that defending cash is an archaic, pointless, almost dangerous fad. In reality, this discourse reveals above all the muted panic of a financial community that is no longer used to being questioned. When editorial writers explain to the sovereign that «the problem doesn't exist», it's not a question of education, but rather of a [...].
Gold and silver are not rising: fiat currencies are collapsing
Precious metals don't «fly» on a whim - they talk. In the space of a year, gold has risen by almost 80 %, silver by 150 % and copper by over 40 %. Three markets, three uses, one conclusion: it's not metals that are rising, it's currencies [...].